The MoFo Millenium Top 100 Countdown

I really need to revisit / reexplore Apichatpong Weerasethakul. I feel like i for insctance didn't fully grasp Tropical Malady the first time i saw it.

I hard a reallly hard time getting trough Ten by Abbas Kiarostami, but its also one of his tougher works imo.

Im reallly surprised that No Country for Old Men is on your list. It's definitely an ok / good movie but yeah overrated imho.

Nice list!

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Here's the list I submitted for the countdown:

What it would look like if I did it today:

1. Quills
2. Gladiator
3. Up
4. Ratatouille
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. Bubba Ho-Tep
7. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
8. Mary and Max.
9. Black Snake Moan
10. 3:10 to Yuma
11. The Departed
12. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
13. Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte Des Loups)
14. Milk
15. The Cell
16. Ghost World
17. The Libertine
18. Zodiac
19. Walk the Line
20. WALL·E
21. Catch Me If You Can
22. Surf's Up
23. A Mighty Wind
24. Saved!
25. Over the Hedge

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100. The Bourne identity
99. Iron Man
98. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
97. Black Dynamite
96. O brother, where art thou?
95. Master and Commander: The far side of the world
94. Brotherhood of the Wolf
93. The Girl with the dragon tattoo
92. Rise of the planet of the apes
91. American splendor
90. Spider-man 2
89. The Darjeeling limited
88. The artist
87. Good night, and good luck
86. Quills
85. The help
84. Lars and the real girl
83. Monsters, Inc.
82. Once
81. The wrestler
80. Requiem for a dream
79. Synecdoche, New York
78. Traffic
77. King Kong
76. Brokeback Mountain
75. Brick
74. Pirates of the Caribbean: The curse of the Black Pearl
73. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
72. Gangs of New York
71. Sunshine
70. Man on fire
69. Gladiator
68. Hero
67. Road to perdition
66. Gone baby gone
65. The three burials of Melquiadas Estrada
64. Gran Torino
63. Signs
62. Tree of life
61.True grit
60. Sideways
59. Werckmeister harmonies
58. Million Dollar Baby
57. The Incredibles
56. Sin City
55. Adaptation
54. American psycho
53. Juno
52. Crash
51. Batman begins
50. Solaris
49. Drive
48. Battle Royale
47. Moon
46. Kill Bill: Volume 1
45. Ghost World
44. Finding Nemo
43. Downfall
42. The King's speech
41. Let the right one in
40. A history of violence
39. Wonder Boys
38. Dancer in the dark
37. Ratatouille
36. The pianist
35. Talk to her
34. The lives of others
33. The prestige
32. Almost famous
31. The fountain
30. Punch-drunk love
29. Toy Story 3
28. Unbreakable
27. The royal Tenenbaums
26. Spirited away

25. Black swan
24. Inception
23. The Lord of the Rings: The two towers
22. The social network
21. Wall-E
20. Oldboy
19. The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford
18. Pan's labyrinth
17. Memento
16. Zodiac
15. Donnie Darko
14. The Lord of the Rings: The return of the king
13. Up
12. The departed
11. Children of men
10. Amelie
9. No country for old men
8. Inglorious basterds
7. Lost in translation

6. City of God
5. There will be blood
4. Mulholland Drive
3. The Dark Knight
2. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

That's 61/100. And now, on my current list:

1. Spirited away (2001)
2. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
3. Toy Story 3 (2010)
4. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (2004)
5. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
6. 25th hour (2002)
7. Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004)
8. OldBoy (2003)
9. Downfall (2004)
10. Big Fish (2003)
11. Lord of the Rings: The two towers (2002)
12. The secret in their eyes (2009)
13. Wall-e (2008)
14. Millennium Actress (2001)
15. City of God (2002)
16. Blue is the warmest color (2013)
17. Day of the wacko (2002)
18. The man who wasn't there (2001)
19. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
20. Mary and Max (2009)
21. Adaptation. (2002)
22. The illusionist (2010)
23. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
24. Donnie Darko (2001)
25. Coraline (2009)

Heh, too bad I missed this top. I could have put Little Miss Sunshine and Kill Bill: Volume 2 in the list. I'm honestly surprised at the lack of 25th hour.

All these lists just remind me of how crap the Noughties were. It's not the fault of the people submitting lists, there just wasn't much worse listing.

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Every decade has loads of quality, you're crazy sir, it just depends where you look.

There's so much arthouse masterpieces in the Noughties it's beyond comprehension.

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

When we redo this list, I expect to see Love Exposure and a couple other Shion Sonos

But there's so little that I love there. Even my own 25 that I sent in. I couldn't find 25 films that I loved. Like the 50's, it's just a decade I don't work with at all. There are 3 films on the 100 that I love, Black Dynamite, Monster's Inc and Amelie, and another that's close, Hedwig And The Angry Inch. There are really good films that I like, City Of God, Unbreakable, Downfall, Zodiac and The Lives of Others, but the others are either OK-good films that I like or films I really didn't like at all.

For me, the top 10 reads thus:

10. Amelie = Great. Truly love it.
9. No country for old men = Made it 40 minutes in six years ago. Haven't been interested enough to go back to it yet, though I do plan to.
8. Inglorious basterds = No. Massively overrated. Looks great, but that's about all it has going for it.
7. Lost in translation = Haven't been interested enough to see.
6. City of God = Really liked it. It's possibly something I may love should I watch it more.
5. There will be blood = Probably the most boring C21st film I've seen. I'm talking about approaching Kubrickesque levels of boredom.
4. Mulholland Drive = Not seen. Think I own it, so will do one day.
3. The Dark Knight = Really? Fanboy fodder. It happened, it finished, I barely remember a damn thing that happened in it from the moment I stopped watching it. Not saying it wasn't well made, etc, simply that I couldn't be less interested.
2. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind = This was OK. Nothing special and I became a little bored by the end, but it was OK.
1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring = Best of the trilogy, but still massively boring. At least Sean Bean dies. Best bit of the whole trilogy.

Like I said, it was pretty back of the envelope, so I'm definitely forgetting about some greater movies, this was just what I could pull together from memory quickly. Weerasethakul's features from what I can tell got more accessible each time, with the big exception of Uncle Boonmee. Tropical Malady is where his cinema finally clicked with me for whatever reason that I do not know.

Ten is a series of conversations, none of which are designed to excite or have punch lines. It's shot flatly on DV with a fixed camera setup and only once leaves it's normal perspective from the dashboard of the car. It's by no means a conventionally entertaining movie, but its discourse is fascinating and the way that Kiarostami creates with so few resources is a highly innovative feet. Ten struck me as a perfect diagnosis of the deeply flawed social constructs of Iranian society. The little boy is fascinating in the way he comes off initially as a bratty kid yelling at his mother, but we come to realize that he's really the product of a sexist society and takes dominance over his mother as a woman.

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Oh yeah, Love Exposure. Great film, about . Though it would barely miss my top 25 of the 2000-2009:

1. Spirited Away
2. Lord of the Rings (put the 1st one if required)
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Gladiator
5. The Lives of Others
6. City of God
7. Howl's Moving Castle
8. Mulholland Dr.
9. Millennium Actress
10. EVA 2.0
11. Summer Wars
12. Downfall
13. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
14. The Pianist
15. 5 Centimeters per Second
16. Paprika
17. Summer Days With Coo
18. Ponyo
19. The Aviator
20. Master and Commander
21. District 9
22. Hot Fuzz
23. Wall-E
24. The Place Promised in Our Early Days
25. Watchmen

Including the modest amount of 10 animations. I noticed the lack of Miyazaki's films beyond his most famous one (Spirited Away), although Spirited Away is indeed his best film in the decade, his other films are still better than almost anything else produced during that time.

PTA indeed tried consciously to mix in Kubrick into that film.

I think it's excellent, probably Lynch's best among those I watched and certainly top 3-4.

It's like the highest rated 21st century film on the IMDB so I went to the movie theater with high expectations for it. I though it was a very good flick, overall, but nothing really special.

Spirited Away would be way higher as well.

I didn't watch 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days but I didn't find Mood for Love to be that good. I watched it with very high expectations, in the end it was satisfactory but not exactly my type of movie (though some people say that Shinkai's films express similar feelings since they are animated it's works so much better for me , Shinkai can be regarded right now as the greatest animation director that is currently working). Another critically acclaimed 21st century film is Mulholland Dr., that one is much more my alley so I would put it on my top 25.

I didn't know you were such a fan of that. I had it pretty high on my list.

It was his #1 of the year.

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Ha! I forgot, knew it was in the top two or three (where it would still be today.)

Yup. I think it's marvelous, ingenious, exceptionally well made, and emotionally effective.

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I would've never guessed in a million years that you would love that movie. I would've guessed just the opposite. Interesting.

Not sure why you would think that, but rock on.

I didn't take part in this one, so I'm gonna just post my 25 anyway.

1) Mulholland Drive
2) WALL-E
3) There Will Be Blood
4) Spirited Away
5) Zodiac
6) No Country For Old Men
7) City Of God
8) Inglorious Basterds
9) The Departed
10) Mystic River
11) Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
12) Pan's Labyrinth
13) Tree of Life
14) Dead Man's Shoes
15) Downfall
16) Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
17) Traffic
18) A.I Artificial Intelligence
19) Holy Motors
20) The Social Network
21) The Pianist
22) Memento
23) A Separation
24) Children of Men
25) Slumdog Millionaire

Nice, although Holy Motors would be part of the 2010s list